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\n\tPresident Donald Trump reported a $10.71 million licensing fee as income as part of his 2025 financial disclosure report for \u201cMelania,\u201d the Amazon MGM Studios documentary about the First Lady.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAmazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million to acquire \u201cMelania\u201d and spent $35 million to market the movie. The documentary took in about $16.6 million at the theatrical box office worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s financial disclosure statement also listed a $521,161 licensing payment for the First Lady\u2019s \u201cMelania\u201d memoir from Skyhorse Publishing as well as $6 million in net proceeds from \u201cNFTs and other collectibles\u201d associated with Melania Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe president\u2019s mandatory financial disclosure statement, released Tuesday, showed Trump reported a total of at least $2.2 billion in revenue for 2025, more than double from a minimum of $622 million the year prior. Last year Trump earned roughly $1.4 billion from his family\u2019s crypto businesses, including World Liberty Financial, as reported by the New York Times. An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates government bought a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial in January 2025, \u201craising a slew of ethical concerns,\u201d per the Times report. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrump also owns a diverse portfolio of stocks and bonds, including in media companies Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance and Fox Corp. and tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle. The shares Trump owns in Trump Media & Technology Group, parent of Truth Social, are worth around $900 million, after the company\u2019s stock price has fallen more than 40% this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, \u201cNeither the President nor his family has ever engaged \u2014 or will ever engage \u2014 in conflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tRegarding the crypto income Trump reported for 2025, Kelly said, \u201cPresident Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions, supporting legislation like the GENIUS Act, and other commonsense policies to drive innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans. All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people \u2013 and any so-called \u2018reporters\u2019 pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDemocrats have accused Amazon of trying to\u00a0curry favor with the Trump administration by acquiring and distributing \u201cMelania,\u201d with Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calling the studio\u2019s $40 million acquisition price tag \u201cbribery in plain sight.\u201d\u00a0Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently said that it\u2019s \u201cjust not correct\u201d to say Amazon\u2019s deal for \u201cMelania\u201d was \u201ca way of buying influence\u201d with Trump and said the acquisition of the film \u201cappears it was a good business decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, said on Variety<\/em>\u2018s \u201cStrictly Business\u201d podcast that there was a \u201cvery competitive bidding process\u201d for \u201cMelania\u201d and that the movie did very well as the box office and has performed \u201creally well\u201d on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios expects to release a companion docuseries for \u201cMelania\u201d later this year.<\/p>\n

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